Mediated representations after laser scanning. The Monastery of Aynalı and the architectural role of red pictograms

The decorations in the church and the main rooms follow the red monochrome type, quite common in this area. This monochrome pictograms show a predominant geometric character and are generally used to describe and highlight the rock-cut surfaces according to those elements which play the figurative role of “architectural constituents" such as columns, pilasters, capitals, architraves and cornices. This kind of depicted decorations have been connected to some sort of apotropaic process of sanctification which was imposed by the need of using those spaces as soon as possible, delaying later the moment of the realisation of the final decorations